Barry Meguiar 00:03
Hi everybody. Welcome back to ignite. I have a great story for you. There’s a scripture that we all know that I practice, and I have for many years, and that is from First Peter, 319, I think it is where he says, always be ready to give a clear presentation of the hope that’s within you always be ready at any moment. Of course. The theme of our ministry is, move everybody every day closer to Jesus. That’s everybody, not just one a day. Some ministries say, find somebody today to share your faith with. Okay, how do I pick one out of all the people I could be with today that are and 80% of people around us are lost, out of all of you I’m going to be with today that are lost and headed for hell. How am I going to pick one and and how do I pick the right one? And what about all the others I don’t pick? We just forget about them. I mean, just let them go to hell. I mean, seriously, it doesn’t make any sense at all. There’s nothing scriptural about that, even though we’ve heard that all our lives, no, no. Move everyone every day closer to Jesus. I just say, get them saved. That happens on regular occasion. For the most part. It’s a team sport, and you just want to move everybody every day closer to Jesus. That I often tell you to people who are in crisis. Don’t waste it. Don’t waste it. What are you talking about? I’m in crisis here. Don’t waste it. If you are a follower of Jesus Christ and you share your faith, he promises everything in life, work together for good. And you know my stories? I have all kinds of stories about I with you hell, but I never lost my faith, and I use every one of those experiences to share my faith. Okay, and so it’s a big point I want to make it. I have a great story for you. I gotta show you a prop very quick, because I just walking by to come to my studio right now. Bill Feder is a great author. He’s a great friend of mine. Car Guy. We see each other often events all over the United States. And boy, he chronicles from Bible time to now, how Satan does the same thing over and over and over and over again, like creating the problem, getting you to give up your freedoms, and then solving the problem he created, and then he owns you more. But the Scriptures He uses, and the the life accounts of the bad guys, the other side, throughout the ages, is spellbinding, has so much information. But in the midst of it, what do we do? And he just brought up this book, The silence of consent. Okay, he didn’t know, I’m doing this. This is not invented, God damn, but it is. I love everything. Bill is written, but the sentence of consent is basically saying, when you don’t say something and you know you should, that’s it equals consent. It says, basically, I endorse what you’re saying. If I say quiet and you’re saying something wrong and I don’t say anything about it, then it really endorses it. It really does. There’s a there’s a great scripture, of course, it says when you know what you should do and you don’t do it, it’s sin. So anyway, that’s a long way around to go and say when, when you least expect it. Expect it. And I have one of those moments I gotta tell you. I was in Detroit, Michigan last Friday, okay? And I’ve been to a conference, and it was, it was, it was a seriously hectic, wonderful conference. And I got to to Detroit late in the evening on Friday, and I thought I got tonight. I gotta get a good night’s sleep, and I’ll be out ready to go. I have a really big weekend coming up. So I was asleep before the before I hit the pill. I mean, that was out, and it’s 1230 in the morning. Okay, got this, 12:30am two huge, I’m not being racist here, just anywhere there. Two huge black guys came busting through my door. I had the latch, you know, broke right through that and came rushing in. I wasn’t laughing at the moment, okay, and looking back now, it’s kind of funny at the moment, I was in shock. I wasn’t, you know, I did think about this. I care, and I have not had fear for decades. We don’t fear anything, because we know when you live for God’s purpose, this is important when you live for God’s purpose. Romans 820 gives us this. I think it’s the second most luxurious promise in the Bible, after John 316, he says, for now, until you get to heaven, I’m going to make everything in your life work together for good. Wow, that’s the end of fear. I don’t have to fear. And so when I was dying in the hospital, when I had a joint venture board against you, I mean, you know the stories I’ve had some I’ve been to the to the walls, to the bricks several times, and I never had fear. And I’ve just always wondered how God was going to get me out his mascara. I have to say, Okay, God, what do you have to now, here we go again, but with. Get wrong. You start looking around at this time. I didn’t have a chance, but it did look back really just a couple of days ago, thinking in this experience, I didn’t have fear. They could have killed me in an instant. It certainly would look like they were going to, but they’re right in my right of the foot of my bed. What do I do? I said, What are you guys doing? And as it happened, I had Karen, I were in Dallas, and she went back to Arizona, and I went to Detroit, and both our bags went to Arizona, so they shifted back, and it arrived, uh, like 11 o’clock at night, and my driver said, I will go and get it for you and bring it to the hotel and tell them to wait for you to call them the next morning. And so they started talking about my bag, and I said, my bag. Well, why would you they didn’t call me, they didn’t knock on the door. They tried their key, and when it was lots they just barged right door and they didn’t even have my bag. I said, where’s my bag? Oh, it’s downstairs. Nothing about it makes sense at all. And they were frustrated and mad and yelling at me, and I’m saying, why? God, just bring me my bag. So then I get then I get a call from the desk manager from her home. She calls me to tell me it was all my fault. What? It’s one o’clock in the morning, I’m 82 years old. I just had two guys break into my room, and she’s telling me, it’s your fault because your driver told us to had to bring in that bag up to your room immediately. Well, he didn’t say that. Obviously that was not true, and what I tried to tell her wasn’t true. She started yelling, yelling at me. Oh, my goodness, this is so bizarre. So I tried to go back to sleep, and kind of did, and finally talked to the manager the next morning. And then she was wonderful, and she was horrified, and she moved me to another room, get me into a different environment. She rooms paid for anything I can do for you. And I said, I that’s all it takes. Is a sorry. You know, things happen. It’s really a matter of how you respond to what you do. What do you do? And that’s right, you’re doing everything wonderfully. I just love what you’re doing. I appreciate you. In fact, can I give you a hug? Yeah. And so I hugged her. It was not what she was expecting. Okay, there’s three options there. One, I’m 82, years old. If I’d had a bad heart attack, I got to tell you I could easily had a heart attack and died. That would have been a problem for them to explain, right? If I was one of my friends who has a permit to carry keeps a gun by the side of their bed, there’s no question. You got two big guys coming right at you at 1230 or you’re going to shoot them dead. That could have happened. Famo, like that. Third option is I got attorneys. If I want to make an issue that I could sue him for a whole lot of money. They have no defense. They broke in to a resident’s guest who who was 82 years old at 1230 in the morning. I think I got some legal palpability there. So that’s going to be going through this manager’s mind and everything. Instead, I’m hugging her and saying, God bless her. And when I got up at 530 Well, I was leaving my room at 530 Monday morning to fly home. I got because she said, is this? I said, it’s not your fault. She said, It is my fault. She’s these people work for me. There’s going to be consequences. And you know, for the time she told me that on on Saturday morning, it bothered me and and I just thinking, I know that this is not right. So when I left her message on Monday morning, I said, thank you. I had a wonderful stay, and because you all even come back and and please don’t fire anybody on my behalf. Please, please don’t do that. I feel terrible that it was a learning experience for everybody. So let’s just take this for what it is, okay, and I love you, and I God bless you. Bye, bye. Now that was, that was a, just a natural reaction. We want to move everybody. You seize the opportunity to move everybody, everyday, close to Jesus. Now here’s and then I’ll quit. But just think of the turmoil. When I talked to the operator at 530 she answered bright and cheery. I think everybody so treat him really good. She was bright and cheery. And when I told her, I want to say thank you, Leno, going to come back? Oh, Mr. McGuire, you’re going to come back.
Barry Meguiar 09:41
I mean, from all she heard, she never guessed that I would be saying that the point being, throughout that hotel, I suspect there was a lot of commotion about how they made such a horrible mistake and and how this curse is a Christian, and he loved on them and said, God bless you and don’t let anybody be fired. You know what? The testimony? Of that is, I’m thinking about it now. I didn’t do it for that reason at the time, but thinking about the days since, I think I everybody in that equation, I moved every one of them closer to Jesus. Praise God. Take the bad stuff, whatever it is, and use it to move everybody, every day, closer to Jesus. I mean, that’s what we get to do. And look how much fun it is all right, just encourage you. See you next time.
